Pasta!

[ciddyguy]

Yes!

Yesterday I made a throwaway batch of pasta to clean the rollers of my new pasta machine and while I didn't have the proper flour, I did alright with what I had and making pasta isn't difficult AT ALL, just takes a bit of time as you first have to make the pasta dough.

Comments

[dan4behr]

I don't have a pasta machine, so I'm fairly certain I'll still buy it in a box, but it does sound tasty.

FWIW, I decided to have pasta and 'clean out the fridge' night this evening thanks to you...

[ciddyguy]

LOL...

Glad I got inspired to provide material for someone else to get inspired! :-D

[jrjarrett]

Interesting and tasty looking.

Do you know, if you use a dough hook in a mixer, do you just, well, go at it till it looks like dough?

[ciddyguy]

Yes, just use a low speed or the flour will fling all over everywhere. Once the ingredients begin to incorporate, you can up the speed a little but not fast and just run it until it pulls away from the bowl and rides around its sides attached to the dough hook, stop down after that and remove to knead.

Dump your flour, eggs into the bowl and some recipes call for a bit of olive oil and some salt (add the salt with the flour and mix to incorporate well before adding the wet ingredients) but the recipe in the booklet that came with my machine says just 2 cups of flour and 2 large eggs.

And I learned you should once kneaded to flatten a little with your hand, cut into 4ths and wrap in saran wrap and stick in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes or so before running through the machine.